A lawyer’s defamation claims against an ex-client who went online to accuse him of a “horrific fraud” can move forward, a San Francisco judge has ruled. Judge James McBride said Elliott Blumberg crossed the line in essentially accusing malpractice lawyer William Gwire of a crime.

A New Jersey federal judge has dismissed eight of 12 claims brought against Winston & Strawn by Hollywood heavyweight James Wiatt, who alleges that former firm partner Jonathan Bristol funneled $2 million of Wiatt’s money into disgraced financial adviser Kenneth Starr’s $33 million fraud scheme.

It may be hard to imagine a meaningful connection between LeBron James’ Twitter activity and the century-old “rescue doctrine,” but such became clear when a plaintiffs attorney sought to apply the “context of the modern world” to the doctrine during arguments before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

More than $3 million in disputed legal bills are at the heart of the racketeering indictment of James Harper, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, who spearheaded an international investigation for Glock. Harper said the charges are “Duke Lacrosse II without the girls.”

In an age discrimination case that had previously produced a $25.7 million verdict, James Hurst of Winston & Strawn convinced a jury in a retrial to vote 8-0 for his client, Abbott Laboratories, extending his trial winning streak to 7-0 over just the last 17 months.